Graham Swift is the author of eight novels, including Waterland, which won the Guardian Fiction Award, Last Orders, winner of the 1996 Booker Prize and 1998 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, subsequently made into a successful film, Light of Day and Tomorrow. His new book, and first work of non-fiction, Making an Elephant: Writing from Within, is an open-spirited account of a writer's life and published in March 2009.
Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland is a book that takes in eels and incest, ale-making and madness, the heartless sweep of history and a family romance as tormented as any in Greek tragedy.
" Waterland , like the Hardy novels, carries with all else a profound knowledge of a people, a place, and their interweaving.... Swift tells his tale with wonderful contemporary verve and verbal felicity.... A fine and original work."-- Los Angeles Times
首次看到这本书的推荐是在《三联生活周刊》上吧?我看到一个人划着桨在黑色的湖面上,桨下是盘根错节的根茎,“水之乡“——一个冷清又多情的名字,于是好奇心驱使我一探究竟。 戴着眼镜的历史老师给我们讲故事 这本书开始看的时候很晦涩,特别是主人公边叙述两个家族...
评分和威廉•肯尼迪一样,格雷厄姆•斯威夫特也是处于一个比较尴尬的处境;读者看到威廉•肯尼迪想到的是威廉•福克纳和约翰•肯尼迪的合体,而看到格雷厄姆•斯威夫特,读者也会想到是格雷厄姆•格林和乔纳森•斯威夫特的合体。因为有了两个比较卓越的前辈作家,...
评分无尽的时间深藏于历史--看看这个故事可以追溯到哪个阿特金森,或者斯科特。 一切都从那里开始,最后又回到那里。 犯下的错误还是遭遇的激情,都不再重要,那种淡淡的忧伤会伴随着时间的沧桑,冲破故事本身,回到每个人物身上。 好像真的有一条河,我们坐在河边上。
评分和威廉•肯尼迪一样,格雷厄姆•斯威夫特也是处于一个比较尴尬的处境;读者看到威廉•肯尼迪想到的是威廉•福克纳和约翰•肯尼迪的合体,而看到格雷厄姆•斯威夫特,读者也会想到是格雷厄姆•格林和乔纳森•斯威夫特的合体。因为有了两个比较卓越的前辈作家,...
评分不过,当时买这本书真的是因为被逼无奈,老师明确要求写水之乡的论文,我赶啊赶啊到最后还是不得不为节省时间买来了中文版,花了两天时间来读完它。叙述方式很奇特,许多条线索盘根错节,所以刚开始读的时候进度很慢且索然无味,但越到后面越觉得惊心动魄,看得我险些跟着一起...
It's all about history— How it repeats itself, how it goes back on itself, no matter how we try to straighten it out. How it twists and turns. How it goes in circles and brings us back to the same place.
评分有深度有厚度,命运母题的一次精彩表达。历史与命运的黑暗将人物和读者深深拉扯,正像冷漠迟缓粘滞的沼地。
评分It's all about history— How it repeats itself, how it goes back on itself, no matter how we try to straighten it out. How it twists and turns. How it goes in circles and brings us back to the same place.
评分Textbook storytelling
评分Textbook storytelling
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